| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 170 |
I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards. |
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| 4 | 2 |
I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 23 |
It bore no insignia and its crest plate was empty. |
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| 19 | 154 |
I thought of such an organism, blindly extending its pseudopodia to encircle a particle of food, an organism complacent in its world—perhaps only an agar plate on the desk of some higher being. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 153 |
"Here in the Sardar," she said, turning to face me, trembling, "they took me into the tunnels and locked over my head a hideous metal globe with lights and wires and when they freed me they showed me a metal plate and told me that the patterns of my brain, of my oldest and most primitive memories, w... |
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| 5 | 159 |
If well done, the resulting plate would be more individual than her fingerprints; it would be as unique and personal as her own history; indeed, in a sense, it would be a physical model of that same history, an isomorphic analog of her past as she had experienced it. |
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| 5 | 160 |
"That plate," she said, "is kept in the tunnels of the Priest-Kings, but these—" and she shivered and indicated the rounded domes, which were undoubtedly sensors of some type, "are its eyes". |
10 |
| 5 | 161 |
"There is a connection of some sort, though perhaps only a beam of some type, between the plate and these cells," I said, going to them and examining them. |
10 |
| 6 | 81 |
"Then my master is a fool," she said, reaching for the meat that I had left on my plate. |
10 |
| 20 | 98 |
I wondered if the girl knew that a plate of her brain traces was being prepared, which would be correlated with the sensors guarding the quarters of a Chamber Slave. |
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| 22 | 82 |
I thrust the Mul-Torch which I still carried into a narrow iron receptacle, consisting mainly of two connected rings and a base plate, which was bolted to the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 74 |
* * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i... |
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| 9 | 49 |
I looked to one side and saw Kamchak scraping another plate clean, holding it to his mouth, sliding and shoving the carefully structured design of viands into his mouth. |
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| 9 | 70 |
On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities. |
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| 23 | 213 |
Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 44 |
There were also some cabinets against one wall, filled with plate and cups, some bottles of paga and Ka-la-na. |
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| 6 | 61 |
He was greeted with cheers and was immediately taken to the table on my left, where he was seated at the far end of the table, before a plate heaped with meat, which he began to devour, holding it in his hands, eyes wild, almost lost in the food, to the amusement of the watching men. |
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| 11 | 12 |
On each cage we passed, as we took our way over it, I saw a thin metal plate covered with numbers. |
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| 12 | 303 |
"Plate collars!" To their surprise, the guard then released the two girls, and Elizabeth, as well, from their slave bracelets. |
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| 13 | 43 |
Beneath the toweling Nela wore nothing; about her neck, rather than the common slave collar, she, like the other bath girls, wore a chain and plate. |
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| 13 | 44 |
On her plate was the legend: I am Nela of the Capacian Baths. |
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| 18 | 391 |
Soon, in the flickering light of the torch, I could read the Forty on the tiny metal plate over one of the cells. |
10 |
| 20 | 280 |
Again he came under the table, and this time his hand darted out and back, and he began to chew on his prize, a peel of larma fruit snatched from a plate, discarded as garbage. |
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| 24 | 146 |
They were perhaps the doors to the compartments of slaves, housing little more doubtless than a straw mat, a washing bowl, and a small box in which might be kept some slave livery and perhaps simple utensils, a plate and a cup. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 5 |
I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc... |
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| 8 | 195 |
I then took the helmet from my things on the rence craft, that without insignia, with empty crest plate, and lifted it until it cleared the side of the barge. |
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| 8 | 298 |
Its crest plate was empty. |
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| 15 | 138 |
I had had a plate collar hammered about his neck. |
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| 18 | 408 |
My head was placed across an anvil and, about my throat, was hammered a simple plate collar. |
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| 18 | 415 |
At last, kneeling, in a simple plate collar, beaten and shackled, stripped, I was thrown before him". |
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| 18 | 433 |
"You were then no longer wearing a plate collar," I said. |
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| 18 | 436 |
At that time the plate collar was opened by one of the metal workers and replaced with a seven-pin lock collar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 119 |
Inside there was a tiny cylinder, fused to a round, circular plate, covered with tiny, copperish lines. |
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| 5 | 117 |
It crouched over a metallic container, round, not unlike a covered plate, that had been sprung open. |
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| 15 | 290 |
A bowl of water was nearby, and a fire, over which, on an iron plate fixed on stones, there were, heating, five, small, flat-bottomed, rounded, wooden-handled Gorean irons. |
10 |
| 15 | 340 |
"I know little of such work," said Verna, "but are you not in danger of scorching the garment which you are ironing?" I hastily drew away the iron, placing it on the fire-heated plate. |
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| 15 | 483 |
Rask of Treve threw the girl one of the oysters, from a silver plate on the low, wooden table. |
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| 16 | 55 |
My fingers went white on the plate that I had been holding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 272 |
On the flat-topped wagon, fastened to one side on a metal plate, already white with heat, was a brazier, from which protruded the handles of two irons. |
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| 5 | 50 |
In the front, at her belly, there was, fixed in the strap, a plate and ring. |
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| 18 | 475 |
It is said they appear as though from nowhere to pillage, and to burn and rape, and then, among the flames, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 232 |
With them, her hair combed, warmed with a broth of dried bosk meat, heated in a copper kettle, over a fire on a rimmed iron plate, legged, set on another plate on the stern quarter, her hands tied behind her with simple binding fiber, had gone Aelgifu. |
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| 2 | 258 |
Within that rail, about the altar, some in chests, others displayed on shelvings, was much rich plate, and vessels of gold and silver. |
10 |
| 3 | 20 |
I saw two men of Torvaldsland loading their cloaks with golden plate and vessels from the sanctuary, hurling them like tin and iron into the furs. |
10 |
| 3 | 196 |
Swiftly, about the necks of the bondmaids were tied strings of cups, candlesticks and sacks, improvised from cloaks, of plate. |
10 |
| 3 | 240 |
He carried a sack of plate at his back, heavy and bulging, which had been given to him by other men, that he might carry it. |
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| 3 | 335 |
The men of Ivar Forkbeard threw their bulging cloaks, filled with gold and plate, into the ship. |
10 |
| 4 | 95 |
They, loot, too, knelt, or sat or laid among golden plate, and candlesticks and golden hangings. |
10 |
| 5 | 193 |
The other two arrows struck, ringing, the plate of the temple of Kassau, and hung, broken, in the boskhide awning that covered the Forkbeard's loot, both that of gold and flesh, and then another javelin fell behind us, into the sea, and the bowmen returned to their benches. |
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| 7 | 69 |
Earlier, before he had begun his tour of inspection, Pudding had come to him, and knelt before him, holding a plate of Sa-Tarna loaves. |
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| 9 | 369 |
I collected nine tarn disks and two pieces of broken plate, plundered two years ago from a house on the eastern edge of Skjern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 |
To the heavy collar of iron, to each of its two, heavy welded rings, one on each side, there was fastened a short chain, fixed to a ring and plate, bolted through the drilled stone. |
10 |
| 7 | 10 |
My ankles, in close chains, were fastened to another ring, in the floor, before me, it, too, on a plate, bolted through the floor block. |
10 |
| 14 | 38 |
On her throat was a heavy cell collar, with ring; attached to the ring was some fifteen feet of chain, it attached to a plate near our heads. |
10 |
| 14 | 69 |
I checked my own collar and chain, and the linkage at the ring and plate. |
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| 14 | 83 |
I picked up, where it lay on the stones, fastened to the plate and ring near mine, the chain which ran, looped, lying on the floor, to her collar, several feet away. |
10 |
| 14 | 106 |
My hand again picked up Tafa's chain, where it was fastened to the plate near mine. |
10 |
| 21 | 343 |
With his right hand he took the ring on his left hand, that on his second finger, and turned the bezel inward, so that the silvered plate set in the gold faced inward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 |
It extended to a heavy ring and plate fastened in a great granite rock, irregular, but some twelve feet in width and depth, some ten feet in height. |
10 |
| 1 | 82 |
The plate, with its ring, was attached near the center of the rock, low, about a foot above the grass. |
10 |
| 1 | 83 |
The rock had apparently been drilled and the plate fastened with four linear bolts. |
10 |
| 1 | 101 |
I felt the wind on my body, but not directly, as the plate in the stone was on the sheltered side of the rock. |
10 |
| 1 | 103 |
I wondered if the plate and chain were so situated in order that the chain's prisoner, such as I found myself to be, be protected from the wind. |
10 |
| 1 | 170 |
Then I went to the granite, and looked at the heavy plate and ring bolted into the stone. |
10 |
| 3 | 637 |
In some dwellings a girl must, before the evening meal, hand her plate to the man; he will then, normally, return it to her; if she has not been completely pleasing to him, on the other hand, she may not be fed that night. |
10 |
| 4 | 87 |
Eta piled several of the hot, tiny eggs, earlier kept fresh in cool sand within the cave, on a plate, with heated yellow bread, for him. |
10 |
| 12 | 3 |
With a Turian eating prong he forked meat from the platter onto his plate. |
10 |
| 12 | 350 |
I wanted him to give me a cube of meat, honeyed, from the metal plate which lay near him. |
10 |
| 12 | 802 |
We were all booty, as much as the coins, the plate, the cloth. |
10 |
| 27 | 326 |
One might, for example, linger, almost imperceptibly, in the placing of a plate of food before the master, that he may see our wrists in proximity, almost as though they might be braceleted; one might boldly, if fearfully, kneel a little more closely than is customary; one might, while kneeling, tur... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 183 |
Arlene, naked, the strap of bondage on her throat, head down, knelt before Ram, lifting a plate of boiled meat to him. |
10 |
| 23 | 198 |
Ram and I took meat from her plate, and she remained where she was, kneeling back on her heels. |
10 |
| 23 | 305 |
She lifted the plate of boiled meat to us. |
10 |
| 23 | 312 |
"I did not say to take back the plate, Girl," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 535 |
It was heavy, golden, with a silver plate. |
10 |
| 1 | 554 |
The Tahari ring had a minute scratch at the corner of the silver plate". |
10 |
| 15 | 232 |
At the edge of the silver plate, that held in the ring's bezel, there was indeed a minute scratch. |
10 |
| 15 | 237 |
"It is large, and of gold, and, in its bezel, has a rectangular silver plate. |
10 |
| 32 | 387 |
In so small a thing as the way in which a woman places a plate on the table before a man, or a twig upon a small fire, she may invite him to her rape. |
10 |
| 53 | 29 |
In the ring was a silver plate. |
10 |
| 54 | 133 |
It was golden, with a silver plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 300 |
"Where is the clothing?" She went to the side of the room and picked up a bag, fastened with a drawstring, the knot on the string sealed with a wax plate, the plate bearing the imprint of a stamp. |
10 |
| 11 | 307 |
"What is this seal?" I asked, indicating the wax plate with its stamp. |
10 |
| 22 | 850 |
Suddenly, angrily, she picked up a plate and flung it across the room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 35 |
She was shackled by the wrists, on a short chain, to an iron ring, heavy, whose plate was bolted into the boards. |
10 |
| 23 | 198 |
It is understood, of course, in such a situation, that in asking such a question that the girl is offering herself to the male, as much, or more, than the steaming, nourishing delights on her plate. |
10 |
| 28 | 169 |
One plate was of meat, another of breads, another of sliced fruits, the fourth of nuts and cheeses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1002 |
What woman does not wish to be claimed by the mighty, by the bold and strong, by the master? The fashion plate, so to speak, of course, may be astonished that she does not sell for as much as many other women, but the fellow who buys her thinks of this as an obvious advantage. |
10 |
| 20 | 72 |
With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate. |
10 |
| 20 | 458 |
She then lit a wide, large, low candle and placed this candle, on a plate, on the soft, wide square of folded linen. |
10 |
| 20 | 1443 |
A slave, say, serving at a banquet, spills a drink or drops a plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 242 |
The point of the collar is to mark the woman as a slave and, in many cases, by means of devices such as a particular kind of knot, a tag, an engraving on metal, or a plate attached to it, to identify the master, not to cause her discomfort. |
10 |
| 36 | 19 |
"It is finished," said the girl, putting the last plate of sod in place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 198 |
There was, on the tray, a plate of fruit, some yellow, wedge-shaped bread, and a bowl of hot, rich-looking, dark-brown, almost-black fluid. |
10 |
| 3 | 297 |
She then lowered it back into place, so that it again, in its retaining ring, fastened in a metal plate, bolted into the couch, hung parallel to the side of the couch. |
10 |
| 4 | 26 |
Further, since the smithies of Ar, those authorized to use the various stamps of Ar, will not plate objects without using relevant variations on the seal of Ar to indicate this, the object was not only being misrepresented but was, in effect, a forged artifact. |
10 |
| 28 | 59 |
It must be understood, of course, that the girl is offering not merely the luscious fruits on the plate to the guest but, too, if he should be interested, the fruits of her beauty. |
10 |
| 29 | 113 |
"Who is he?" "It is not a 'he,' " said Hassan, tossing the vulo bone on his plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 338 |
With the pole, using it as a lever, thrusting it beneath the vat and its large, raised fuel plate, I tipped, and then turned, the vat and plate. |
10 |
| 1 | 680 |
Might there not be an inadvertent brushing of a rough hand by a small, soft hand placing a plate or goblet? "Forgive me, Master," she might whisper. |
10 |
| 10 | 223 |
"I will take her a plate of food when I am finished". |
10 |
| 10 | 310 |
I slowly, carefully, piled a plate high with rolls, eggs and fried tarsk strips. |
10 |
| 10 | 318 |
Boots's slave, Lady Telitsia, eyed the plate hungrily, desperately. |
10 |
| 10 | 325 |
"May I have the plate a moment?" asked Boots. |
10 |
| 10 | 334 |
Boots handed the plate to me, and I carried it between the wagons until I came to my wagon. |
10 |
| 10 | 338 |
I put down the plate of food. |
10 |
| 10 | 514 |
I handed her the plate. |
10 |
| 10 | 554 |
She wiped her plate with a crust of one of the rolls. |
10 |
| 10 | 581 |
Did she think, truly, she was that different from the slave who, but Ehn ago, had been tied and lashed? The Lady Yanina handed me the cleaned plate. |
10 |
| 10 | 730 |
In a moment or so, retrieving the plate, I rejoined Boots near the fire. |
10 |
| 10 | 768 |
Boots then piled a plate with food and put it down before her. |
10 |
| 10 | 771 |
She then put her head down and ate from the plate, not touching it with her hands. |
10 |
| 10 | 772 |
Finally she was even licking at the plate. |
10 |
| 10 | 774 |
Boots then took the plate from her. |
10 |
| 16 | 1258 |
Some men then, near the back of the hall, using poles, brought in a giant vat of tharlarion oil, mounted over a large, flattish, curved-edge iron plate. |
10 |
| 16 | 1259 |
Fuel in this plate was then kindled. |
10 |
| 20 | 33 |
It was again filled with oil, and, heated by new fuel on its plate, boiling. |
10 |
| 20 | 307 |
It took a brand from the fire plate beneath the oil vat and hurled it into the vat. |
10 |
| 20 | 320 |
Rather, it took six brands, still flaming, from the sand, scattered from the fire plate, and set them upright, torchlike, in a circular pattern, about itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 55 |
He then held out to her the plate of mushrooms. |
10 |
| 6 | 72 |
Mincon began to pick mushrooms off the plate and feed them to Tula. |
10 |
| 12 | 171 |
Near the top of the pole there is a rectangular plate on which there is writing. |
10 |
| 12 | 172 |
Surmounting this plate, clutching it in its talons, is a tarn, done in silver, its wings outstretched". |
10 |
| 13 | 52 |
It was fixed in the side of a building, fastened to its bolted plate, about a yard above the level of the street. |
10 |
| 22 | 412 |
To one side, on the floor, fastened to a heavy, bolted-in metal plate, there was a slave ring. |
10 |
| 26 | 2002 |
This had brought the sturdy leading ring, on its plate, riveted into the leather, to the front, under her chin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 41 |
Tupita lifted the plate to Mirus. |
10 |
| 31 | 42 |
I lifted the plate to the man who wore the mask. |
10 |
| 31 | 48 |
But after the free persons had taken a few bites, eating first, thus ritualistically in the Gorean fashion expressing the difference between themselves and us, and their precedence, Mirus shoved a bit of food to one side of his plate, from which Tupita, happily, helped herself. |
10 |
| 31 | 49 |
The stranger then picked up a tiny piece of food from his plate and indicated that I should lean forward. |
10 |
| 31 | 54 |
Later he let me finish the food on his plate. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 482 |
The gold expended, of course, may be later expeditiously recouped from the public treasury, and the sale of goods, such as precious plate, rugs, fine cloths, tapestries, inlaid woods, silver and gold wire, art objects, jewels, tharlarion, tarsks, and women. |
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| 5 | 49 |
"Doubtless you followed Cosians," I said, "or their suppliers, smelling booty, lured by the possibilities of spoils, by the supposed imminent passage south of men laden with the plate and coin of Ar's Station, men who might succumb to your claims of need and plight, hoping perhaps even to contract a... |
10 |
| 8 | 755 |
There, sitting, heavily chained to a sleen ring, its plate bolted into the stone, wrists and ankles fastened quite closely to it, was a large, naked, bearded man, the burly fellow. |
10 |
| 17 | 443 |
From below, in front of the wall, I could hear the buckling and tearing of plate on the gate, the pounding of the ram, the groaning and cracking of wood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 555 |
"Thank you," I said to the other helper, taking a sausage from the plate. |
10 |
| 25 | 26 |
"I think we can set it in here, on a plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 955 |
Surely it is not merely to be found in silver plate and golden vessels, nor even in women lying naked in their chains, huddled together, trembling, in the mud, knowing that they are now properties and must please. |
10 |
| 9 | 575 |
They know that they are beautiful, and it is not uncommon for one to allow her hair to brush a fellow's shoulder or to linger a moment placing a plate or a goblet, that the lovely slimness of her wrist might be noted. |
10 |
| 9 | 585 |
On his plate a dead urt, in his goblet gall. |
10 |
| 9 | 612 |
Such slaves, like jewelry, Torian rugs, silver plate, verr, and such, tended to be seized largely as a result of house-to-house searches. |
10 |
| 19 | 427 |
She had a common black, strap collar on her neck, no more, really, than a strap or plate of black iron. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 579 |
I saw the chains straighten, the rings straighten; the plate on our right, the peasant's left, out from the stone, and the very stone in which it was fastened, too, drawn an inch or more out from the wall, and the other chain, too, I saw, it still fastened to its ring and plate, these tight on the s... |
10 |
| 31 | 668 |
That to which the ring and plate was attached, bolts still on the plate, struck a fellow across the face, lashing him back. |
10 |
| 2 | 25 |
A ring was attached to it, and a chain was attached to this ring, running, as I discovered, to another ring, fastened to a plate, apparently bolted into the wall. |
10 |
| 13 | 262 |
The cage, apparently, opened and closed from the bottom, gated by a hinged plate. |
10 |
| 13 | 278 |
He jerked the cord and it sprang the latch, and the bottom plate of the cage, she screaming with terror, I, too, crying out in terror, dropped down, on its hinge. |
10 |
| 13 | 521 |
Sometimes I trod not on stone but on perforated plate or grillwork. |
10 |
| 14 | 407 |
I picked up the plate and goblet. |
10 |
| 16 | 36 |
He dropped a tiny bone, sucked free of meat, onto a small, golden plate. |
10 |
| 16 | 322 |
I felt a wing, another scrap from his plate, strike my body. |
10 |
| 19 | 69 |
Beneath the protective, shielding casings of those stiff brocades were there not terrains and latitudes which, shorn of their armor, would prove as vulnerable and soft as mine? I was momentarily blinded by a flash of light, the sun reflected from a huge silver plate, perhaps a yard in width, held ov... |
10 |
| 19 | 76 |
Such a plate might have come from a palace. |
10 |
| 24 | 273 |
I saw no plate, or candelabra, no vessels of silver or gold, being brought forth. |
10 |
| 24 | 276 |
Was a woman or two, a sack of plate, a handful of gems, worth their lives? Did they value their lives so lightly? It must be that, I thought, they must all be mad. |
10 |
| 24 | 905 |
He could no more bring himself to steal her than he could have brought himself to steal a silver vessel, a golden plate, from a house in which he had been accepted as a guest. |
10 |
| 26 | 16 |
I put the plate to one side. |
10 |
| 26 | 73 |
I picked up the plate, with the untouched food, and left the cell, locking it behind me. |
10 |
| 31 | 433 |
But almost at the same time there was heard the slippage of a bolt, and we saw, on his left, our right, as we looked upon him, the plate to which the ring was attached, jerk outward an inch. |
10 |
| 31 | 524 |
A link had snapped, but the plate behind him on the wall, too, was half pulled out from the stone. |
10 |
| 31 | 529 |
And the chain on his left wrist still went back to the metal plate, pulled out, though it was, an inch or so from the wall. |
10 |
| 31 | 559 |
The entire block of stone in which the plate and ring was fixed on the peasant's left, our right, had inched out. |
10 |
| 31 | 592 |
The block of stone, broken from the wall, torn out of it, still fixed to the plate and bolts, and chain, had burst forth, showering mortar in the room. |
10 |
| 34 | 107 |
There could be little possibility of mistake, at any rate, I supposed, about the chain with the plate and ring attached. |
10 |
| 34 | 108 |
Bolts were still loose in the plate. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 2459 |
There were front curvatures on the front plate, and back curvatures on the rear plate, such that, matched, each set of curvatures, in a circular fashion, encloses an ankle. |
10 |
| 4 | 288 |
On the tray, tastefully arranged, with napkins, was a plate of small pastries, a saucer and cup, some sugars and creams, some spoons, and a small pot of coffee. |
10 |
| 4 | 313 |
She looked at the plate before her. |
10 |
| 10 | 347 |
Here, I have learned, she thought, I might be whipped for dropping a plate, or not having responded instantly to a command. |
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| 11 | 292 |
To be sure, there had been an intense sting of humiliation as she understood what she was to do, and that she must obey unquestioningly, and that her helpless service and abject obedience would amuse and gratify her master, but, after her initial confusion, shame and blushings, and stumbling once, a... |
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| 11 | 570 |
If she should drop a plate or break a glass, or spill a beverage, or even move awkwardly, she knew she might expect to be tied to a ring and beaten. |
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| 12 | 234 |
She lightly traced with her finger the narrow curved plate between her legs, with its curved, long, slender, saw-toothed opening. |
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| 25 | 359 |
This could not be all! I was starving! And on my plate there was flung no more than the tiniest of crumbs!" "You were not mastered," said Ellen. |
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| 27 | 2460 |
The device is swung shut about the ankles; it is held shut on the left by the hinge; on the right, there are projecting perforations, one on each plate, with matching apertures; the tongue of a padlock is passed through these two apertures; the padlock is then snapped shut, and this closes the devic... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 286 |
In the center of this platform, fastened to a plate anchored in the cement, there was a heavy iron ring. |
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| 79 | 145 |
* * * * "Viands, Master," she said, kneeling and lifting the plate to him, her head down. |
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| 79 | 209 |
He observed one of the slaves, she whom he had named 'Cecily', hurrying to one of the fellows, to replenish his plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 258 |
Cecily had carefully, earlier, removed the tabuk strips from their skewers and had laid them on a plate to the side. |
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| 23 | 110 |
Pertinax's Jane bore a large wooden plate of roast suls. |
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| 33 | 143 |
Already, upstream, in tributaries, some hundred pasangs north, plate ice has been detected". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 94 |
On the Kasra deck, the rectangular viewing plate was easily slid back. |
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| 7 | 123 |
When I had slid back the plate on the observation panel of the Kasra keeping area, particularly of late, a number of its occupants, those who could stand, and not merely roll miserably about in the soiled straw, had not only flung aside their blankets and hurried forward, until stopped by their ankl... |
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| 12 | 173 |
She will commonly serve head down, and will keep two hands on the goblet or plate until it is placed softly, gently, carefully, deferently, before the free person. |
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| 28 | 161 |
"Each slave, when she first serves you, is to kneel and kiss the whip, and then place the plate before you". |
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| 28 | 165 |
She then put the plate before him, humbly. |
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| 28 | 166 |
He handed the whip to Leros, and Alcinoë knelt at his place, and leaned forward, kissing in her turn the whip proffered to her lips, and then, as Adraste before her, placed the plate humbly before the free man. |
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| 28 | 167 |
Soon Adraste would return, with another plate, and the whip would be passed to the next fellow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 449 |
You will be alert to the needs of the guests, an empty plate, a glass in need of refilling. |
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| 4 | 625 |
She then took some scraps from her plate and cast them about, on the floor. |
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| 8 | 2065 |
"Slaves, there," said Menon, "exist to loosen the strings on pouches, urge fellows to shower gold on the tables, to risk much, beyond reason, to pout and look away if there is evidence of hesitation or circumspection, to cry out in pleasure if an extra tarn disk is put in the plate, another card dra... |
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| 10 | 3 |
One launders the sheets at the public troughs, and later sprinkles them, and puts them under the handled irons, heated on the plate over the house fire. |
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| 28 | 87 |
"I will have Jane and Eve hold a plate for you," she said. |
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| 29 | 264 |
I crept back and, as though frightened, retrieved the tray, the plate and tankard, and then rose to my feet, and backed toward the gate, which was opened for me, and I exited the cell, following which the gate was again closed. |
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| 42 | 60 |
I supposed this was an act of contempt, like brushing aside a plate or dashing a tray to the floor, but I did not object. |
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| 44 | 106 |
Shortly thereafter I removed the tray, the plate, and tankard from the cell. |
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| 51 | 109 |
She placed the sack on the table, beside her plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 |
This was done by means of a collar and chain, which ran to a heavy ring, dangling from a plate, anchored in the wall. |
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| 11 | 36 |
It was a far cry from the provenders I had been taught to prepare in the house, ranging from roasted, seasoned bosk and tarsk, and fresh plate breads, with honeys and butters, to frosted pastries and decadent, creamed sauces which, in some cities, were outlawed by sumptuary laws. |
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| 41 | 221 |
For example, if a slave should spill a beverage, or drop a utensil, while serving, let alone break a plate or a bowl, she may expect a whipping. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 428 |
The urt who nibbles the cheese of a Ubar, even from his plate, does not insult the Ubar. |
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| 9 | 732 |
I was cold from the river, and in pain, given how I must hold my body to access the narrow plate of air between the water and the ceiling of the cage. |
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| 21 | 15 |
I then let it fall, twice, against its heavy metal plate. |
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| 28 | 233 |
The key is numbered, and the number matches the number on the plate to which the ring is attached. |
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| 29 | 18 |
Its number, as noted, corresponded to the number on the plate to which the ring was fastened. |
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| 45 | 2 |
"No, Master," I said, kneeling, offering the plate to him. |
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| 45 | 9 |
He then thrust the prong once more into the bowl, secured some three or four more slices, and slid them onto his plate, which was already laden with parsley, steamed rice, fried verr, and roast bosk. |
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| 45 | 78 |
My serving dish was shortly empty, and I knew I should withdraw to the kitchen, either to have it layered with more syrupped tospit slices, or supplied with another provender, perhaps rice, white, or brown, or red or purple, from Cos, or a plate of cheeses, from local dairies, served with warmed bre... |
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| 45 | 196 |
Sometimes she may feed with him, from her plate or bowl, kneeling beside the small, low table, where he sits, cross-legged. |
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| 52 | 281 |
"If one has no particular interest in a slave, and she is no more than another plate or goblet, another vase or brush, and she desires another master, and he is interested in her, one might give her to him, or, better, sell her to him. |
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| 64 | 175 |
Clearly, somewhere out there, there was a dark lantern, a lantern whose light can be shielded, or revealed, given the opening or closing of a plate or door on the lamp. |
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| 64 | 269 |
Lyris approached Eve, and head down, held up the plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 11 |
I held the metal plate in my left hand, under the water, wiping it with the cloth in my right hand. |
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| 14 | 36 |
I had finished scouring and washing a plate, and now submerged it in the rinsing basin, after which I inserted it in the rack to my left, to drain and dry. |
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| 14 | 40 |
"Nor I you," she said, handing me a plate. |
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| 14 | 120 |
She clenched a plate. |
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| 14 | 190 |
"I think the kitchen master is watching," said Adraste, handing me a plate. |
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| 20 | 132 |
Several of the small irons, heated from stoves in the kitchen, were waiting on the iron plate. |
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| 38 | 238 |
I was gathering up the plate from which I fed her and the cup from which I gave her her wine, and was about to return these wares to the carrying tray, when she spoke to me. |
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| 38 | 266 |
I must think! I must think!" "You may remove the tray, the plate, and cup," said Florian. |
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| 39 | 44 |
He went to a side of the chamber and slid back a small, narrow, rectangular metal plate. |
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| 41 | 175 |
Several bore vessels and plate; some had rolled rugs or tapestries in their arms or draped over their shoulders; some had wrapped about themselves robes and cloaks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 46 |
"Larger items of greater value," I said, "gold plate and silver vessels, if you had them, and women, and such, would not be disposed of locally. |
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